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US Offshore Oil Producers Brace for Storm Isaac

25.08.2012 - Oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico started preparing for Tropical Storm Isaac on Friday as its track looked to skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore energy producing zone...

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Australia's Victoria State Bans Coal Seam Gas "Fracking"

24.08.2012 - Australia's southeastern state of Victoria on Friday put a hold on hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to produce hard-to-reach gas deposits, and a halt on new coal seam gas...

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Shale Gas Failure Offers Rescue for EU Green Energy Drive

23.08.2012 - Europe has been unable to repeat the shale gas revolution that has swept the United States, and that could prove to be the unlikely saviour of long-term EU efforts to spur...

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Germany Needs to Keep Some Conventional Power

22.08.2012 - Germany must keep a safe layer of fossil fuels-based power capacity in the decades to 2050 by when it hopes to derive 80% of electricity from renewable sources, said a study...

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Denmark's DONG Buys German Wind Power Projects

14.08.2012 - Denmark's DONG Energy has bought three German North Sea wind power projects with a total planned generating capacity of 900 megawatts from PNE Wind for up to €157 million ($194...

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Gazprom Singapore Aims to Double Revenue by 2015

26.07.2012 - The Singapore trading arm of Russia's largest gas producer, Gazprom, expects to double its revenue by 2015 as it grows trade volume of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and non-gas...

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PTTEP Boss on an M&A Mission to Secure Thailand's Energy

25.07.2012 - Tevin Vongvanich only took the helm in May at Thailand's top oil and gas explorer, PTT E&P , but he is already overseeing a multibillion dollar M&A deal as part of the company's...

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China's CNPC in Talks with Ecuador over $12.5 Billion Refinery

20.07.2012 - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's biggest oil producer, is in talks with Ecuador's government over a potential investment in the OPEC-member's US-$12.5 billion...